Hybrid/Remote Virtual Private Cloud Job Trends

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 406 429
Rank change year-on-year +70 +23 +172
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 29 34 39
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.19% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.52% 0.43% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 37
10th Percentile £61,375 £51,000 £43,250
25th Percentile £70,313 £61,344 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,250 £78,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% +12.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,750 £81,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -6.90%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Private Cloud falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,542 7,828 9,517
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.65% 45.95% 46.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,963 5,044 8,156
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,944 £36,270
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Virtual Private Cloud salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.69%) Tomcat
1 6 (20.69%) WebSphere
1 6 (20.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (75.86%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (62.07%) Amazon S3
4 16 (55.17%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (51.72%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (51.72%) Serverless
6 13 (44.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (34.48%) Azure
7 10 (34.48%) Route 53
8 9 (31.03%) SaaS
9 8 (27.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (24.14%) AWS Direct Connect
11 6 (20.69%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (20.69%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (17.24%) GitHub
12 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (13.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 4 (13.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (13.79%) CloudFront
14 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) VPN
2 7 (24.14%) BGP
3 6 (20.69%) Firewall
3 6 (20.69%) SSL
4 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
5 4 (13.79%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (13.79%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (13.79%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (13.79%) IPsec
5 4 (13.79%) LAN
5 4 (13.79%) MPLS
5 4 (13.79%) NetScaler
5 4 (13.79%) NX-OS
5 4 (13.79%) OSPF
5 4 (13.79%) SD-WAN
5 4 (13.79%) VXLAN
5 4 (13.79%) WAN
5 4 (13.79%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (13.79%) WLAN
6 3 (10.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (65.52%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (20.69%) DB2
2 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 10 (34.48%) Banking
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Back Office
3 3 (10.34%) Financial Institution
3 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.34%) Law
3 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Retail
4 2 (6.90%) Billing
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Senior
5 6 (20.69%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Applications Support
5 6 (20.69%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Support Engineer
6 5 (17.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (17.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (17.24%) Consultant
6 5 (17.24%) Linux Support
6 5 (17.24%) Linux Support Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Firewall Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Network Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) LAPP Stack
1 6 (20.69%) LDAP
1 6 (20.69%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (13.79%) Loki
3 3 (10.34%) RESTful
4 2 (6.90%) AWS CDK
4 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Data Centre
2 6 (20.69%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
4 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
5 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Unix
2 6 (20.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (48.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 13 (44.83%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (37.93%) Cloud Security
4 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (31.03%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (27.59%) Observability
7 6 (20.69%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (20.69%) Change Management
7 6 (20.69%) ITIL
7 6 (20.69%) Release Management
7 6 (20.69%) Runbook
7 6 (20.69%) Service Management
7 6 (20.69%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Cost Management
8 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
9 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
9 4 (13.79%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 3 (10.34%) Go
3 3 (10.34%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) AWS Certification
2 10 (34.48%) Degree
3 7 (24.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (20.69%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) SLA
2 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
2 3 (10.34%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (62.07%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (20.69%) Grafana
3 6 (20.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) IBM
1 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
2 4 (13.79%) CheckPoint
2 4 (13.79%) Cisco
2 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
2 4 (13.79%) Fortinet
2 4 (13.79%) Meraki
2 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
2 4 (13.79%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.45%) Google